PRINCE IN WOMAN'S CLOTHES

Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 23 June 1915, Page 3

PRINCE IN WOMAN'S CLOTHES

Once upon a time there was a Prince called Charlie, and he went to Scotland to fight some battles. But the other side won in those battles, and as his soldiers were killed, or else had run away, Prince Charlie was all alone, and in great danger. For, you know, the soldiers who belonged to the other side were looking everywhere for Prince ] Charlie, and if they had caught him ' they would have put him into prison or killed him.

But Prince Charlie had lots of friends in Scotland, and one of those friends waa a young lady called Flora Macdonald. Miss Flora said she would try to save Prince Charlie, so she dressed him up in a woman's, clothes and called him Betty Burke!

Then they both got on horses,1 and rode away, and if anyone asked who that funny-looking girl was, Miss Flora srud: "Oh, that is my servant, Betty Burke!"

Miss Flora and Betty Burke had many narrow escapes of being taken by the soldiers, but at last Prince Charlie took off his woman's clothes, and afterwards sailed away to France,, where he was quite safe.

But he never forgot brave Miss Flora. And when people in England got to know about Miss Flora's brave deed they said she was a heroine, and hundreds of ladies went in carriages to see her, so that they could say, "I have shaken hands with brave Flora Macdonald."